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Carlile Pollock, New York, to his uncle, Reverend Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, 23 June 1789
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán Pollock Letters
Title Carlile Pollock, New York, to his uncle, Reverend Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, 23 June 1789
Description The text reproduced here is taken from a copy of a letter which was written to the Rev. Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, by his nephew Carlile Pollock in New York. Campbell (1727-1805) was a well-known and scholarly minister of the Synod of Ulster of New Light persuasion who had ministered in Armagh since his settlement there in 1764. He served as Moderator of the Synod from 1773 to 1774, and represented the Synod in various dealings with government. He was born in Newry and married his cousin Jane Carlile, also from Newry, in November 1758. Her sister Elizabeth married John Pollock of Drumcashalone (or Ashgrove), Newry. The Campbells had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters: Carlile, George and Hugh emigrated to America and settled in New York; their sister, Mary, married Isaac Corry, MP for Newry. The letter indicates that Campbell's son Robert, who was then 16 years of age, had emigrated earlier in the year to learn the Pollock family business in New York and to settle there. He died at New York on 16 June 1791. [Carlile Pollock relates the family are doing well in New York with no desire to return home and wishes his uncle would also have moved there. He denigrates the Presbyterian preaching in America to a Methodists class with few "capable of distinguishing religon from ranting and declamation". He loves the country but laments that Americans believe in inherently independent ideas of liberty compared to European governments, which he claims leads to their selfish independence from their neighbour].
Date 23/06/1789
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/74/1
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 2pp
Topic Pollock Letters
Geographic New York City,New York (state),United States,Armagh,Armagh (county),Ireland
Temporal Eighteenth century,Seventeen eighties
Genre Transcript
Note Title, description and letter transcript from a published source. Citation for letter transcript from a published source: Patton, W.D. (1994). 'My Dear Uncle': a Letter from New York, 1789. Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Vol. 23, pp. 21-25.
Creator / Author Name Carlile Pollock